Ain't Nothin' Without You
Bad Romance
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1h 30m
Directed by Pia Frankenberg | 91 mins | 1985
A screwball comedy shrewdly observing the manners, mating habits, and class hang-ups of upwardly mobile 1980s West Germany, "Ain’t Nothin’ Without You" stars director Frankenberg as Martha, a filmmaker and single mother wracked with guilt over her background of privilege, and Klaus Bueb as Alfred, a child of ’68 radicalism who has spent years stalled in his architecture studies, working on the side as a film studio tour guide. Falling in love after a meet-cute on Hamburg’s frozen-over Alster Lake, the odd couple begin a lively back-and-forth on most every hot button topic du jour, while also negotiating the complications that arise when Martha decides to cohabit with the family of her Portuguese nanny.
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